HOUSE  OF  KEPRESENTATIVES,  January  28,    18b'4.— Read 

first  and  second  times,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Hilton,  from  tlie  Oouiuiittee  on  Military  Aftairs.j 


To  be  entitled  An  act  amendatory  of  an  act  entitled  »*  An  act  to  put 
an  end  to  the  exemption  from  military  service  of  those  who  have 
heretofore  furnished  substitutes,"  approved  January  5,  1864. 

1  Seci'Ion  1.   The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do 

2  enact.  That  the  above  recited  act  shall  not  apply  to  farmers  and 
'6     planters  engaged  in  the  year  1863  in  the  production  of  grain  and 

4  provisions,  either  by  their  own  manual  labor  or  in  superintending 

5  the  labor  of  others  :    Froiided,  The  exemption  herein  coutem- 

6  plated  is  granted  subject  to  the  following  conditions  : 

7  I.  That  the  person  availing  himself  thereof  shall  devote  him- 

8  self,  and  the  labor  of  which  ho  has  the  control  or  superintendence, 

9  exclusively  to  the  production  of  provisions. 

lU         II.  That  there  shall  be  paid  and  contributed  from  the  farm,  or, 

1 1  if  more  than  one  farm,  from  each  of  the  farms  which  the  person 

12  thus  exempted  owns  or  superintends,  in  addition  to  t^ie  tithe  rc- 
IS     quired  by  any  tax  law,  an  additional  tenth  of  the  pork  or  bacon 

14  produced  on  said  farm  or  farms,  (beginning  with  the  product  of 

15  laat  year,)  for  the  use  of  the  army. 


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16  III.  That  the  person  thus  exempted  will,  if  so  required,  sell 

17  all  his  surplus  provisions,  now  on  hand   or  hereafter  raise  1,  for 

18  the  use  of  soldiers'  families,  at  prices  not  greater  than  those 

19  fixed  for  the  time  being  bj  the  commissioners  appointed  under 

20  the  impressment  act. 

21  IV.  That  the  person  seeking  to  avail  himself  of  the  benefit  of 

22  this  act  shall  have  furnished  a  substitute  not  liable  to  military 

23  duty,  who  is  now  in  the  service,   or  who  has  been  legally  dia- 

24  charged  therefrom,  or  who  has  died  therein. 

25  V.  That  the  benefit  of  this  act  shall  not  apply  to  persons  on 
2U  farms  or  plantations  on  which  there  is  any  other  male  adult  not 
27  liable  to  military  duty. 

1  Sec.  2.  Nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  as 

2  limiting  the  power  of  the  President,  under  existing  laws,  to  ex- 
o  empt  such  persons  as  he  may  deem  proper,  on  grounds  of  equity, 
4  justice,  or  necessity. 


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